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I'll Take Romance (1937)
Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Overview
Theater manager James Guthrie’s (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he’d be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Grace Moore | Melvyn Douglas | Helen Westley | Stuart Erwin | Margaret Hamilton | Walter Kingsford | Richard Carle | Ferdinand Gottschalk | Esther Muir | Frank Forest | Walter O. Stahl | Barry Norton | Lucio Villegas | Gennaro Curci | Marek Windheim | Mariska Aldrich | Meeka Aldrich | William Bailey | George Beranger | Bing Conley | Albert Conti | Irene Crane | Carrie Daumery | Lew Davis | Ann Doran | Manuel Emanuel | Mary Emery | Bess Flowers | John Gallaudet | Al Ernest Garcia | Mildred Gover | George Hickman | Al Hill | Payne B. Johnson | Adia Kuznetzoff | William Lally | Alphonse Martell | Louis Mercier | Greta Meyer | Alexander Palasthy | Franklin Pangborn | Manuel París | Bruce Sidney | Genaro Spagnoli | Marco Vico | Bud Wolfe | Ernest Wood | Bruce Wyndham